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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cleveland, OH

April 1, 2021Medina County, Portage County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this special weather statement at Apr 1, 2021, 3:20 PM EDT for Medina County, Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 1, 2021, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired
Apr 1, 2021, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Medina County, OH, Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2021-04-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2021-04-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

913 
WWUS81 KCLE 011920
SPSCLE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
320 PM EDT Thu Apr 1 2021

OHZ020>022-012015-
Summit OH-Portage OH-Medina OH-
320 PM EDT Thu Apr 1 2021

...An intense lake effect snow band will affect Portage...Medina and
Summit Counties Until 415 PM EDT....

At 318 PM EDT, radar indicated an intense lake effect snow band along
a line extending from near Streetsboro to near North Royalton to near
Grafton, moving southeast at 30 mph.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
Winds to 30 mph...
Visibility rapidly dropping to less than a quarter of a mile...
Quick accumulations of up to 1 inch may accompany this band...

Locations impacted include...
Akron, Medina, Ravenna, Cuyahoga Falls, Brunswick, Kent, Barberton,
Green, Solon, Hudson, Wadsworth, Twinsburg, Tallmadge, Streetsboro,
Macedonia, Rittman, Mogadore, Lodi, Garrettsville and Creston.

Use extra caution if you must travel into or through this lake effect
snow band. Rapid changes in visibility and potentially slick roads
are likely to lead to accidents. 

LAT...LON 4099 8200 4116 8208 4119 8207 4120 8197
      4127 8197 4128 8157 4135 8159 4135 8103
      4099 8101 4098 8144
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 332DEG 26KT 4131 8134 4126 8167 4126 8208 

&&

ODOT DMS  301, 305, 316, 325, 327, 601, 602, 603, 606, 607, 612, 613,
614, 615, 616, 617, 604, and 605.

$$

Clark

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 1, 4:26 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCLEAshland, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Summit, Wayne64 min
Apr 1, 9:18 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Summit57 min
Apr 1, 10:00 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Summit90 min
Apr 1, 10:39 AM EDTWinter Weather AdvisoryCLECuyahoga, Summit8 hr
Apr 1, 2:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCLECuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain61 min
Apr 1, 4:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCLEGeauga, Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and 1 more86 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.